Sentence examples for external explanations from inspiring English sources

In two separate meta-analyses of locus-of-control beliefs — whether we hold that we influence our own fates or that our lives are subject to uncontrollable external forces — the psychologist Jean Twenge and her colleagues found that, between 1960 and 2002, Americans have increasingly turned to external explanations for the shapes of their lives.

He sets out three sticking points between the two views: 1) contingency, 2) nominalism, and 3) external explanations of stability.

The hypothesis still to be tested is if this effect has anything to do with the shops' intrinsic power (shops are larger, thus fulfill more needs), or if there are external explanations (larger shops have better infrastructure).

In my book, Multicultural Politics, I gave as illustration five dimensions of ethnic 'difference' that cannot be reduced to Othering or to external explanations, so let me draw and expand on those (Modood, 2005): 1. Cultural Distinctiveness: norms and practices such as arranged marriage, existence of specific gender roles or a religion.

The patients were doubtful about drug treatment when external explanations to the depression were dominating.

A few of the women gave external explanations and some of the men considered their inherited personality as contributing to their depression.

This would show that the existence of matter is not contingent after all, and that it does not require an external explanation.

It is possible, however, that the nature of the problem has an external explanation: it is likely that some editors prefer to "avoid troubles" with the authors and vice versa, thus resorting to the most conventional procedures.

One premise is the Humean idea that causal relations can be known only by experience, so that there is no way in which a causal relation between the immediate content of experience and something outside that immediate content could be known and (hence also no way to justifiably invoke such external causes as explanations of that experience).

With the ready availability of patient education materials and public forums online, this experience increasingly involves patients constructing their own explanations external to the medical world.

This result is consistent with a previous study showing that compared to the group of men, women use an external strategy of explanation (Sørensen, 2005).